Locales (1st Edition)

From Codex of Darkness

Detailed Places

Worldly Places

Locale Focus Description Book
Boston
Massachusetts, USA
Mage Boston Unveiled: A dysfunctional Consilium under the shadow of secret sins, incubating a history born of the Abyss. MTA 370, BU
Detroit
Michigan, USA
Promethean These Mortal Engines: The old mines underneath this broken down city have unearthed a great clockwork machine. SN 119
Miami
Florida, USA
Changeling City of Endless Summer: A freehold under occupation, riven and vulnerable in the wake of the breakdown of the cycle of seasons. CTL 324
New Orleans
Louisiana, USA
Vampire City of the Damned: A city of extremes, riven by bitter rivalries while disaster looms. VTR 268, NOrl
New York City Geist The Modern Gomorrah: Cosmopolitan meetings of diverse krewes, caring for a home still haunted by the ghost of the Twin Towers. GTS 288
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, USA
Hunter Shadows of Philadelphia: Busy streets crowded by compacts at cross-purposes and cryptids both ancient and contemporary. HTV 334
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Mummy The Accidental Nome: A dense and disorganized gathering of rival merets and mysterious powers. MTC 242 & 253, Rio
The Rockies
Colorado, USA
Werewolf Hunting Grounds: Promising territories opened by the attrition of civil war and the cleansing of the idigam. WTF 288, HG
Washington, D.C. Mummy Monument to Fate: A city of ambition and hubris, its municipal layout crafted to a plan to overlay the fate of Irem. DC

Otherworldly Places

Locale Focus Description Book
Dominions of the Underworld
Dead Man's Hand Geist A frontier community settled in an abandoned desert dominion. BotD 131
The Forge of Orcus Geist A capitalist island society whose factories forge ghosts and fetters into both goods and currency. BotD 161
The Junkyard Geist This scrapyard attracts ghosts who have reduced themselves to unfeeling machines, tests each design, and destroys inferior models. BotD 154
The Killing Fields Geist An endless battlefield where even visitors must participate in the war between the armies of two Kerberoi. BotD 137
Lowgate Prison Geist An unearthly prison which releases only prisoners who have lost all passion with which to sin. BotD 146
Oppia Geist A debauched oasis fed by dredging Essence from the Underworld's Rivers and built by the hands of ghostly slaves. BotD 167

Undetailed Mentions

Locale Focus Description Book
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Vampire A domain whose Imperial Prince cannot contain the sectarian strife, class conflicts, and occult ambitions of the local Kindred. DC 70
Amsterdam Vampire The Sanctified Prince of this cosmopolitan city enforces strict limits on feeding through blood magic and tyranny. DC 70
Anchorage
Alaska, USA
Vampire A sparsely populated, tribalist domain whose Prince keeps a deadly secret deep underground. DC 71
Athens Vampire The vampires of this domain are hidebound ritualists. The monsters they call vrykolakas are much more practical about tearing them apart. DC 71
Atlanta
Georgia, USA
Vampire A crime-riddled domain whose Carthian Prince plays Kindred gangs against one another for the future of his city. DC 71
Baghdad
Iraq
Vampire A politically strained domain whose leader has been assassinated, leaving a cache of occult weapons unaccounted for. DC 71
Bangkok
Thailand
Vampire The vampires of this city are human trafficking parasites, spreading disease and misery. DC 72
Beijing Vampire Local Kindred must learn complicated traditions of etiquette and station in order to learn the many subtle ways to subvert and exploit them. DC 72
Berlin Vampire A chaotic patchwork of fiefs left in the wake of war between the Western and Eastern domains destroying them both. DC 72
Birmingham
Alabama, USA
Vampire A thriving industrial city for the living and a trap for the dead, thinned out and pursued by churchgoers turned vampire hunters. DC 73
Birmingham
England, UK
Vampire A longstanding Carthian marchionate whose Kindred culture is modern, plain, and brutal. DC 73
Buenos Aires Vampire A tightly controlled domain ruled by a shadowy Prince, possibly under a false identity. DC 73
Cairo Vampire An Islamic domain which moderates feeding by traditional quotas attributed to negotiation with the mortal sultan. DC 73
Cardiff
Wales, UK
Vampire For both the living and the dead, a city for big fish in small ponds. DC 74
Dallas
Texas, USA
Vampire A domain on the verge of revolution, whose poor neonates eye the ambitious oil magnate Prince. DC 74
Delhi
India
Vampire The twin domains of Old Delhi and New Delhi approach conflict as young vampires throw off the old caste system. DC 74
Detroit
Michigan, USA
Vampire A burnt-out city that mysteriously attracts neonates to abandoned havens. DC 75
Dublin
Leinster, Ireland
Vampire The prosperous domain of the seductive and capricious Lady Carmilla. DC 75
Glasgow
Scotland, UK
Vampire A traditionalist city approaching a crisis point as its Sanctified Prince grows unbearably extreme and petty. DC 75
Hong Kong Vampire A place of business whose Kindred grow rich off the drug trade and organized crime. DC 75
Istanbul Vampire A court riven between the faction of its ancient Byzantine Prince and a popular movement of harsh reactionaries. DC 76
Jakarta
Java, Indonesia
Vampire The Kindred thrive in the lawless cracks of this congested city, fearing only each other. DC 76
Jerusalem Vampire A fragile Regency whose factions are placated by the compromise rule of a vulnerable Carthian. DC 76
Kabul
Afghanistan
Mummy A war-scarred nome whose scorpion cults have joined together to save what relics and cultural treasures they can. MTC 240
Las Vegas
Nevada, USA
Vampire The Boss of Las Vegas will soon have trouble, as the overpopulation of Kindred threatens their Masquerade. DC 77
London Vampire The Lady of London forbids discussion of the Cull which destroyed the domain's vampires 250 years ago. DC 77
Los Angeles
California, USA
Vampire A balkanized land of insular territories, where the bonds of covenant are weak. DC 77
Madrid
Spain
Vampire The cruel vampires of this active city have not forgotten the war between the Spanish republicans and fascists. DC 78
Mexico City Vampire A corrupt domain whose Prince is unbothered by regular mortal disappearances. DC 78
Moscow Vampire The Carthian Diktatorat has not kept up with the times, their underground meetings increasingly irrelevant. DC 78
Mumbai
Maharashtra, India
Vampire A city of rich and poor, whose undead Rani's court hobnobs with celebrities while the poor simmer. DC 78
New York City Vampire A deceptively comfortable domain where the living sometimes vanish – and so too the dead. DC 79
Paris Vampire The vampires of Paris treasure, pamper, and protect the living, so that they grow fat and rich. DC 79
Prague
Czech Republic
Vampire A haunted city whose Kindred Governor's dementia has spiralled out into a tangle of nonsensical bureaucracy. DC 79
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Vampire Vampires who hold territory in affluent districts still poach from the favelas to avoid police oversight, inviting response from Kindred residents. DC 80
Rome Vampire The Fog of Ages has convinced the pretender Camarilla of this domain that their rule is older and more solid than it truly is. DC 80
Salem
Massachusetts, USA
Mummy Home to an ancestral dynasty loyal to the Arisen, who since colonial times have been picked off, leaving only a mysterious calling card. MTC 243
Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vampire Opportunities abound for the younger vampires who survived the Bosnian War to rule the domain tonight. DC 80
Seoul Vampire One of the city's oldest vampires rebels against its modern culture with self-righteous murder, creating a crisis for the Masquerade. DC 80
Tokyo Vampire An urban whirlwind of change whose Kindred order is constantly shifting, in the shadow of angry ghosts. DC 81
Venice
Veneto, Italy
Vampire A strange carnival culture has developed here, where vampires attend Elysium anonymously in mask and costume. DC 81